Klarinet Archive - Posting 000058.txt from 1998/08

From: Lee Hickling <hickling@-----.Net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Copywrite Question for "Experts"!
Date: Mon, 3 Aug 1998 06:15:43 -0400

This is interesting:
>There's yet another twist in the law ... you cannot create an arrangement of
>a copyrighted work without permission of the copyright owner,l for either
>private or public performance.

Then if I re-harmonize and interpret a song ad-lib, improvising, say
playing the piano in a lounge gig, not writing down the notes in a score,
am I technically in violation of the copyright?

It reminds me of a long and beery discussion I once had with two lawyers,
which ended when one of them said to me, "What you don't seem to understand
is that there is no necessary relationship between the law and logic."

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